Century Quote by Demetri Martin

I collected men with interesting names. I already knew a Socrates. He was tall and ugly and intellectual and the son of some big…

— Sylvia Plath

Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.

— Old Tom Morris

Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his…

— Moses Mendelssohn

Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the…

— Michel de Montaigne

It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Leonardo Dicaprio didn't change his name, Emilio Estevez didn't change his name. But every case is different. I only have one reference of what…

— James Roday

So Socrates was a kind of gadfly. He was a sort of philosophical urban gorilla hanging around in the middle of Athens, asking these…

— Rebecca Goldstein

Socrates ... brought human wisdom back down from heaven, where she was wasting her time, and restored her to man.... It is impossible to…

— Michel de Montaigne

We have no proof that Socrates ever existed. We only know from witnesses to his life that he did. Like Jesus, he never wrote…

— Christopher Hitchens

“We need both Socrates and Aristotle in the search for knowledge, but in education today there is too much Aristotle and too little Socrates.”

— Gregory J.E. Rawlins

Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

— James Madison